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   It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,

     It ravishes all senses.

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Among the many luxuries wealth can buy is insulation from reality — the most dangerous luxury of all. Another dangerous luxury is a ‘sense’ of being one of ‘those’ wonderfully special people with superior wisdom and virtue.

Selfishness is never a pretty thing but it is at its most gruesome when it masquerades as lofty nobility.

There is right and there is wrong. There is also the person and their actions.

A person is to simply be loved, whereas actions can be considered right or wrong. Unless you speak up to wrong actions you are condoning them. There is NO room in tolerance for loving someone enough to permit them to proceed to their own destruction.

I would go so far as to say that tolerance and love are mutually exclusive concepts. If you ‘tolerate’ someone that means that you don’t care for them, about them, nor do you have their interests at stake.

You can’t say that you love humanity and that you tolerate it at the same time.

Let’s say that if I were a drug addict and changed my ways and achieved 20 years of sobriety, would I be ‘junk’ because I was once a druggie? In other words, would being a druggie mean that my value was forever tainted despite changing my behavior into that of sobriety?

Unless actions and attitudes can change a person is condemned at the instant of his/her first wrongdoing. So does learning from one’s mistakes become an utterly pointless act when the taint to one’s self is permanent?

Therefore, someone attacking one’s destructive beliefs is one of the most loving things anybody can do for anyone else.

“Tolerating ideas and principles that bring death [or destruction] is like building your house upon sand. And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.”